The Rune Mage Starting at Hogwarts

從霍格沃茨開始的符文法師

Author: Auditore

Introduction:

When a young wizard named Ryze acquired the rune system from Runeterra...

"The Keystone Mage unlocks the Summon Arcane Comet of Elijah, which also improves some basic wizard stats. It's alright, at least it's more useful than in the game."

"The dual-wielding style allows you to use two wands simultaneously to cast different spells, which is quite interesting."

"...How can you obtain Vogt's Wizard Hat by completing a quest while possessing both the Sorting Hat and the Time-Shifter, even if you already have the Useless Staff?"

"You're saying wizards can't train their bodies? Give me some training equipment points!"

"Wizard-like thinking + superhuman brain + cutting-edge inventor + scientific fanatic... I have deciphered the runes!"

When Voldemort returned from the dead, he looked at Ryze, who had gathered all the runes and ascended to godhood, and could only hear the latter's taunts.

"In our Runeterra, a Dark Lord like you is at best a loli."

Chapter 1: The Rune System

Dear Mr. Black:

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Enclosed is a list of required books and equipment.

The semester is scheduled to begin on September 1st. We look forward to hearing from your owl by July 31st.

Vice-principal

[Millera McGregor, author]

Rizz White looked at the letter delivered by the owl messenger with an excited yet slightly strange expression.

The letter was sealed in a rather unusual wax seal, shaped like a shield emblem with an "H," surrounded by a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake.

The envelope was made of thick parchment, and the text on it was written in emerald green ink.

It stated the location where he received the letter and his full name, which he himself did not know: Riz White Black.

Amid the owl's incessant urging for a quick reply, Rizz first handed the other person a piece of jerky to prevent him from disturbing the other children's rest at the orphanage.

"I've finally received this acceptance letter..." he thought to himself. "But Black... does that mean I'll always be a member of the Black family?"

As a time traveler, and one who starts out in a London orphanage.

Rizz White's surname was chosen by staff at London's Department of Child Services from among a large number of orphans of unknown origin, while her given name was chosen by the orphanage director in alphabetical order.

It could be said that his name had no meaning whatsoever; it was merely a name temporarily chosen for household registration purposes.

Ryze himself never expected that after being called White for 11 years, his real surname would be Black.

Rizz scoffed, then began to recall the story of Harry Potter.

He had never met any of the characters from Harry Potter growing up.

But when he was learning English by flipping through old newspapers from the orphanage, he inadvertently saw in the evening paper on November 1, 1981, a strange story about owls flying in flocks in broad daylight and strange people in cloaks pulling people around to celebrate in the streets.

From that point on, Rizz began to wonder if he had somehow ended up in the Harry Potter world.

However, Rizzi never took the initiative to search for Harry Potter or any other original characters.

Even if Harry Potter were found, it wouldn't change his life now.

Before the age of 10, Reese's thinking was very simple.

First, survive.

After all, the fact that he, with all four limbs intact, excellent grades, and a fairly handsome appearance, could still live in an orphanage until the age of 10 without being adopted clearly indicates that his physical condition was not very good, or even terrible.

He was probably abandoned when the weather was terrible, which caused him to develop a chronic illness. He would become sickly whenever the weather turned slightly cooler, and by the age of 10, he was much thinner than his peers.

Moreover, his recovery speed after injury has been much slower than that of ordinary people since he was a child. Other children's scrapes and cuts will heal in a few days, but it takes him almost half a month.

For this reason, in order to live longer in her second life, after mastering common English vocabulary, Ritz has been submitting short stories to local children's magazines and newspapers. At the same time, she occasionally writes some tear-jerking stories to gain social sympathy and attention by using her identity as a sick and weak orphan.

Rizzi used part of the royalties he earned to treat and recuperate his health, deposited part in the bank for some investment, and gave the remaining small portion to the director of the orphanage to improve the food and living conditions at the orphanage.

After all, the atmosphere in the orphanage he was in was not bad. If it weren't for their care in his early years, he, the transmigrator, would probably have died before he even started making money.

Moreover, this would solidify his image as a sickly but kind and upright good boy, improve his status in the orphanage and school, and prevent him from being bullied by mentally challenged individuals.

Rizzi originally planned that if Hogwarts didn't exist in the world, he would rewrite Harry Potter after starting high school to make money, and then invest in stocks, striving to improve his health and achieve financial freedom before the 21st century.

However, his thinking changed last year.

On September 1st of last year, he suddenly woke up in his sleep to a strange rune system.

The system is very simple; it combines several popular game modes from League of Legends, such as Teamfight Tactics, Hextech ARAM, and Battlegrounds.

I don't know if it was because his name is Ryze, which is the same as the rune mage in League of Legends, that it chose him.

In short, on the day the system was bound, Ryze received a golden attribute crafting tool, a basic equipment crafting tool, and a random golden rune as a reward.

The golden forging tool yielded a health shard, granting him 375 health points and increasing his maximum health.

The life force brought by this life fragment made his body feel much more comfortable.

Although it didn't make his physique improve by leaps and bounds as he had imagined, his physical development finally caught up with his peers in that year, and he was able to have some energy last winter.

Ryze speculates that attributes such as health, armor, magic resistance, and health regeneration should all be part of constitution, and that health alone has a relatively limited effect on improving constitution.

His previous physical condition, including his health points and health regeneration, must have been quite low. The increase of 375 points in his maximum health only brought him back to the level of an ordinary person.

The basic equipment forging tool yielded a useless large stick, about 1.5 meters long, which looked no different from a fire poker.

In terms of attributes, it provides him with 60 points of spell power.

As for the golden runes, he obtained the Keystone Mage rune and unlocked two talents.

Summon: Aery and Arcane Comet.

The damage from these two talents in the game is quite negligible; they don't deal much damage in a whole game. If there were any other usable talent, there would be no need to choose this one.

In reality, however, this rune still gave Ryze quite a surprise.

The former allows him to summon a small magical creature, Aery, as his familiar.

It doesn't consume his magic, and while being in sync with his mind, it can also provide him with various conveniences in life, making it a mini version of a house-elf.

The latter allows him to summon a small arcane comet to attack.

At the same time, the power of Arcane Comet is entirely controlled by Ryze himself, benefiting from both spell power and mana bonuses.

With the 60 spell power provided by the useless big stick, Ryze's full-force attack can create a crater about one meter wide in the grass. Later, as Ryze's spell power and mana increase, he may one day achieve the power of a true comet fall.

In short, after obtaining the system and seeing the words "System functions will be officially opened after the host activates the next stage" in the system description, Ryze basically confirmed that this world was most likely the world of Harry Potter.

Since then, he has been waiting for the Hogwarts owl to deliver his acceptance letter.

However, receiving a letter from an owl does not trigger the next stage of the system.

It seems the system will only react when he officially joins Hogwarts.

"In short, there are two problems now," Ryze continued to mutter as he looked at the acceptance letter.

One question is whether he can bring the magical creature Aery to Hogwarts.

The other was to confirm whether his surname, Black, was indeed the Black he had imagined.

Thinking of this, Ryze looked at the owl by the window, who was getting a little impatient, took out two pieces of chicken jerky from his small drawer and handed them to the owl, asking it to wait a little longer. Then he took out paper and pen and began to write a reply to Professor McGonagall.

Chapter 2: Am I Sirius's cousin?

Ritz received his acceptance letter on the evening of July 24th.

A week has passed since that day.

He received a letter from Professor McGonagall the next day, informing him that Hogwarts was verifying his identity and that he would visit the orphanage before the end of July to check on the magical creature and accompany him to Diagon Alley to buy textbooks, asking him to wait for a while.

On the morning of July 31st, after yesterday's torrential rain, the weather was exceptionally clear, making it a good day to go out.

The children at the orphanage happily invited Reese to go outside and sunbathe together. Reese found a clean spot on the grass behind the orphanage and absentmindedly watched the mischievous little ones playing nearby.

Around nine o'clock in the morning, a caregiver at the orphanage who had watched Reese grow up waved to him with a happy expression and called his name loudly.

"Little Rizz, a professor from some school said they've found your family. You should go and see them."

At this call, the children who were playing nearby immediately crowded around the caregiver, asking all sorts of questions about what was going on, looking even more excited than Riz.

"Alright, alright, you guys go ahead and do your thing. I'll go check what's going on."

Ryze temporarily suppressed the curiosity of the kids, but he himself had some doubts.

He remembered that there were indeed several female descendants of the Black family still alive, such as Bellatrix, Voldemort's die-hard fan who was still imprisoned in Azkaban, and Malfoy's mother, who also seemed to be from the Black family.

However, they are all purebloods. Would they come with Professor McGonagall to see their "illegitimate child"?

Rizzi's doubts were answered after he met the three people who came to the orphanage looking for him.

After entering a room suitable for conversation, Professor McGonagall, who was in charge, introduced herself to him: "I am Minerva McGonagall, the Vice Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This is Andromeda Tonks and her daughter Nymphadora Tonks. And you must be Mr. Riz White Black."

Tonks?

I seem to remember her. Is she Lu Ping's future wife?

Ryze glanced at the pink-haired girl who looked to be around 18 years old behind him and pondered this in his mind.

Although he vaguely remembered that the other party should be a member of the Phoenix Society, he really didn't know what relationship the other party had with the Black family.

“Hello, Professor McGonagall, I am Ryze—” As soon as Ryze responded, Andromeda, a woman who looked to be around 40 years old, stepped forward with tears in her eyes and tightly grasped Ryze’s hands.

“Oh, Merlin, you and Uncle Alfard are practically twins. I haven’t heard from him in 11 years. I never imagined he would leave behind a descendant like you before he disappeared. Judging from your appearance, you must have suffered a lot over the years.”

Ryze blinked, slightly unaccustomed to the other's enthusiasm, and could only look to Professor McGonagall behind her for help.

Professor McGonagall stepped forward to explain on his behalf.

Blake is not a rare surname, and the Blake family has not had any direct descendants for many years. Therefore, at first, no one associated the surname with the Blake family and simply issued the admission notices as usual.

But after Rhett White sent his inquiry, Hogwarts began investigating the identity of the new young wizard.

Then, after spending a few days, they actually confirmed that Ryze had the Black family bloodline.

The mother's identity seems to be influenced by some force and cannot be traced, but the father's identity has been confirmed.

At first, Hogwarts thought the other person might be Sirius Black's illegitimate son or his brother Regulus's posthumous child, but later they found out that they were not.

Alfard Black, a Black who was expelled from his family in 1977 for secretly supporting his rebellious nephew and niece, and then mysteriously disappeared around 1980.

If Riz isn't mistaken, the nephew he sponsored might be Sirius Black, who is still in Azkaban.

And his niece, Ryze's cousin in name, is the Andromeda woman standing in front of Ryze now.

Before her marriage, she was a genuine Black, but she defied her family's wishes to marry a Muggle-born wizard and was eventually expelled from the family.

According to her, she and her husband also faced numerous threats from dark wizards in the magical world.

It was her uncle Alfard who secretly stepped in to resolve those troubles for her and her husband, and even gave her a large dowry, hoping that she could live more freely and happily after breaking free from the constraints of her family.

After Alfard disappeared and was presumed dead, only she and Sirius Black tried to find their uncle's whereabouts, but ultimately to no avail.

Andromeda spent about half an hour explaining his father and the Black family, while Professor McGonagall explained some magical terms to him.

Professor McGonagall also provided further explanation regarding some of the darker aspects of the wizarding world that Andromeda mentioned. She stated that the atmosphere in the wizarding world was indeed somewhat oppressive and tense more than a decade ago due to the activities of a Dark Lord, but now that Dark Lord has fallen, and the wizarding world has returned to peace.

Riz looked at the photo in his hand of Alfard Black when he was young, who looked about 70% like him.

However, due to his physical condition, he looked thinner and weaker than the other person in the photo, who appeared spirited and energetic.

However, looking at her cousin who was nearly 30 years older than her, Reese still found it difficult to call her "sister".

Instead, the other person kept rambling on about the past, not only mentioning that Ryze should move in with them, but also urging their daughter to call him uncle, making Ryze and Nymphadora feel a little awkward.

“Alright, Andromeda, you’re in a bit too hasty. I think Mr. Black hasn’t fully accepted these things yet, and his father has also left him a property,” Professor McGonagall intervened again, looking at Raz. “So, Mr. Black, do you have any more questions about your background?”

"Call me White or Ritz, Professor McGonagall. To be honest, I don't have any real feelings for the Black family or my missing father yet, and I don't identify with the Black name. I just want to know what impact it would have on me if I denied or acknowledged the Black name?"

He added, "According to Professor McGonagall and my cousin, the Black family seems to be a... rather exclusive and conservative wizarding family. They probably wouldn't accept my existence."

Faced with Raz's direct question, Professor McGonagall looked at Andromeda.

Andromeda sighed and nodded at Raz: "That's true. Although there are no pure-blood wizards in the true sense these days, wizards associated with the Black family would not want a wizard who doesn't understand maternal bloodlines to 'taint' the Black family's 'purity'."

"However, the Black family no longer has any direct male descendants, so your mother's identity cannot be confirmed. If you really want to go back, there is some room for discussion."

"Of course, whatever choice you make, I will support you. After all, even without the Black surname, we are still closely related by blood, and Uncle Alfard has never changed his attitude towards us because we were expelled from the family."